A scene from a performance A man with two additional legs comes from the theatre to the cloakroom: Zbigniew Bednarczyk Cloakroom attendant: Lesław Janicki photo Cricoteka Archives
“(…) Sublimating the too physical reality of happenings and the presence in time and space transferred all the effort into a sphere of greater freedom, of expanded boundaries, of
“conceptual” rather than visual imagination, “impossible”.
What is important to me at this moment is the consolidation
of a g r e a t v a r i e t y
of p r o p o s a l s
designed in such a way that the spectator develops
the f e e l i n g
that it is i m p o s s i b l e
to p e r c e i v e
and i n t e r p r e t the whole
f r o m t h e s p e c t a t o r’ s p o s i t i o n.
The r e c e p t i o n in this case is completed
through
r e f l e c t i o n
e m e r g i n g from the correlation
of objects and actions
which are not a “creation” or
materialization, but
a b a s i s
for the conceptual and spiritual process. (…)”
(Kantor, Tadeusz. Metamorfozy. Teksty o latach 1938-1974 [Metamorphoses. Texts about the years 1938-1974] selected and edited by Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz. Cracow: Cricoteka, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2000, p. 600.)
Translated by: Piotr Graff
